Word: crews
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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These moments stick out only because the film normally progresses so smoothly. On that score the actors and crew deserve congratulation. But their streamlined performance highlights a script that is smooth going on downright flat...
...Harvard crew team members know the store for its window bulletin board, which has posted information on crew games and players since the 1920's, when the former owners started that tradition...
There was plenty to get upset about. Two years of unusually cloudy weather cast a pall over the entire operation. The hummingbirds died, and so did the finches. The bees failed to pollinate the squash, and mites feasted on the beans and white potatoes. One crew member, Jane Poynter, lost a fingertip in a thresher accident. (She was whisked out for emergency treatment and then returned.) The rest came down with assorted complaints: diarrhea, back pain, eye and urinary-tract infections and a cold that made the rounds until there was no one left to catch...
...crew members were chronically overworked and, until the oxygen supply was replenished after 16 months, had less and less energy to work with. To liven up the drudgery, they used any excuse to celebrate: a beach party near the ocean habitat, a picnic on a blanket in the savanna, a dress-up party in clothes suddenly two sizes...
Clinton edited the second draft overnight and began practicing the speech Wednesday afternoon. More changes were made as Clinton practiced for top aides and a video crew in the small theater in the East Wing. He would cut and add new material off the top of his head as he talked, while aides tried to write it all down nearby. After three dry runs, his wife, dressed in a blue sweatsuit, walked in to listen. When he reached the part about choosing a "talented navigator" with "a rigorous mind" and "a caring heart," both Clintons burst out laughing. "Oh please...